M0U8TAGHED WARBLER. 19 



INSECTIVOR^E. 



Family SYLVIIDjE. 



Genus Acrocephalus. ( ' Naumann. ) 



MOUSTACHED WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus melanopogon. 



Sylvia melanopogen, Temminck; Man., 2nd. Ed., p. 121, 1835. 



" " Bree; 1 st. Edition. 



" " Schinz; Europ. Faun., 184.0. 



" " Muhle; Monograph, 1856. 



Calamodyta melanopogen, Bonaparte, 1838. 

 Salicaria melanopogen, Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 



" " Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



Oettia melanopogen, Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. Degland, 1849. 



Bee-fin a Moustaches Noires, Of the French. 

 Schwarzbartiger Rohrsanger, Of the Germans. 

 Torapaglie Castagnolo, Of Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Beak very slender, and drawn inwards ; eyebrows broad 

 and white; the vertex, lore, and a spot behind the eyes black; twelve quills 

 in the tail; tarsi blackish. Length four inches and a half; carpus to tip 

 two inches and one fifth; tail one inch and a half; tarsus nine tenths of 

 an inch; beak, from gape, half an inch. 



The Moustached Warbler is a rare bird,, for, notwithstanding the 

 statement of Temminck that it is common in the neighbourhood of 

 Rome, near Ragusa, and in Tuscany, but few specimens are found in 

 cabinets. It occurs, however, in Sicily, Italy, the south of France, 

 Spain, Greece — in the swamps of Lentini, and at Syracuse. Temminck 

 says that it is "tres commune" about the lake Castiglione, and Ostia. 

 However this may be we know very little about its habits, more than 



